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An epiphany in browsing

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2003-02-18 18:14. Epiphany Web Browser

As many of you know, the former maintainer of Galeon, Marco Pesenti Gritti, recently started a new project based on the Galeon codebase known as Epiphany. The main goals of the Epiphany web browser are simplicity, usability, following the GNOME HIG, and GNOME integration. Epiphany is available from GNOME cvs in the "epiphany" module.

Ed Dumbill has written a nice short little review of Epiphany in its current developmental state, complete with a few screenshots, and some download links.

Also, here is another screenshot of Epiphany taken by James Willcox showing a patch that provides load feedback in the tabs and a bookmark context menu.

On another note, If any of you out there would be interested in contributing to the Epiphany project, Marco could use some help with the Epiphany website

Re: An epiphany in browsing

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2003-02-19 06:01.

I agree for the most part. While I am prepared to install and work with the latest versions of Epiphany/Galeon/Mozilla/whatever in the interest of finding bugs and reporting them, it's become an exercise in futility. Pre-built packages for any of these are never available for the standard distribs. already released. I recently installed Mozilla 1.3b on my RH8 installation, and then tried both epiphany and galeon. Both gave up the ghost citing some unresolved calls. Turns out I need to install gtk2.2, which needs glib2.2, which also needs libXrandr.so.2, which is available in the latest XFree86, but which needs GLIBC2.3, which needs..... I mean, the list is endless. Do I have to end up installing a new kernel just to test a GUI application?

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